by Bob Behre
Rick Porcello knew he couldn't get his dad on the phone, so he called home to New Jersey to his mother, Pat.
Pat Porcello did what any mother would do when her son, Rick, told her he had earned a spot in the Detroit Tigers rotation. She broke into tears.
"I couldn't make out anything she was saying," said Porcello, who will start the Tigers fourth game of the season, against the Toronto Blue Jays. "She was crying the whole time. I had to hang up the phone."
Rick's dad, Fred Porcello, was enroute by plane from Florida to the family's home in Chester when his son was informed by Tigers' manager Jim Leyland that he had earned the No. 4 spot in the rotation.
Leyland, in his understated way, simply directed Porcello to his next assignment. "He called me into his office and said, you're on the team and your pitching the fourth game in Toronto," Porcello said.
"My dad was flying back home from the game I pitched against the Nationals on Tuesday," Rick Porcello said. "I caught up with him later. It was definitely a nice moment to share with my family."
Phones have been ringing about the 6-5, 200-pound right-hander since his remarkable junior and senior seasons (2006-'07) at Seton Hall Prep and an equally scintillating first year in Minor League ball, last year. His impact at the Tigers' Class A level and in Major League camp in Florida this spring was felt immediately.
Pat Porcello did what any mother would do when her son, Rick, told her he had earned a spot in the Detroit Tigers rotation. She broke into tears.
"I couldn't make out anything she was saying," said Porcello, who will start the Tigers fourth game of the season, against the Toronto Blue Jays. "She was crying the whole time. I had to hang up the phone."
Rick's dad, Fred Porcello, was enroute by plane from Florida to the family's home in Chester when his son was informed by Tigers' manager Jim Leyland that he had earned the No. 4 spot in the rotation.
Leyland, in his understated way, simply directed Porcello to his next assignment. "He called me into his office and said, you're on the team and your pitching the fourth game in Toronto," Porcello said.
"My dad was flying back home from the game I pitched against the Nationals on Tuesday," Rick Porcello said. "I caught up with him later. It was definitely a nice moment to share with my family."
Phones have been ringing about the 6-5, 200-pound right-hander since his remarkable junior and senior seasons (2006-'07) at Seton Hall Prep and an equally scintillating first year in Minor League ball, last year. His impact at the Tigers' Class A level and in Major League camp in Florida this spring was felt immediately.
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